Propaganda
– The tools used by all the rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic
darkness, and spiritual powers of evil in the heavens.
'Illusory
truth effect - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab’
I want to take you back in
time to the 1930s. Hitler wrote a book “Mein
Kampf”
and in a section of the book, he wrote about the use of propaganda.
In Volume
1; Chapter 6,
he wrote, “all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare
essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in
stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated
until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has
been put forward.” Since Hitler wrote about it, you would expect
that he used this propaganda.
In
1933 when Hitler and the Nazis gained power, there were approximately
45 million Protestants and 22 million Catholic Christians in Germany.
Why didn’t the Christians stop Hitler and the Nazis? Why didn’t
the Christians talk out against imprisoning and killing political
opponents of Hitler? Why didn’t the Christians stop the Holocaust
before millions were slaughtered? They not only didn't stop it, but
many participated willingly because they chose to believe the lies.
That it was right and good for the country. You were a good patriot
if you helped in the cause. Think about this: Most
Germans
were “professing Christians”;
approximately 63% Protestant and 33% Catholic, while the Jewish
population was less than 1%. Why didn’t the Christians stop the
insanity? Why did many participate? I strongly believe that it was
because of the propaganda. Propaganda
that produced the illusion of
truth. The same kind of propaganda
that caused the January 6, 2021, insurrection (attempted
coup) on our US capitol to
overturn our election.
Donald J. Trump has been using propaganda to try and gain control of our country. With him being President and having all of the social media platforms at his disposal he's been in the perfect place to spread the lies. Go back and look at all his talks, his speeches, tweets, instagrams, and see how often he repeats things.
His latest big lie is that the election was stolen. He is still repeating the big lie.
There have been countless investigations, law suites, and even offering large sums of money to people who can bring proof of fraud. Nothing, no evidence, but he’s certainly got quite a number of people to believe that there was.
The
reason why I am bringing this up right now during Christmas is
because Trump is traveling the country and continuing to spread the
big lie. There is a strong belief that another uprising like the
January 6th insanity on the Capital will happen again. The January
6th incident did not involve the military but there are fears that
the next one might with many of the military siding with the
insurrectionists.
Wars
have been started by the lies told by the leaders. Those who spread
the lies rarely if ever participate in the fighting. The ones who do
the fighting are the ones who believe the lies or are forced to
fight. Most of the ones who die are the unfortunate souls who get
stuck in the middle.
It
would be best for all of us to treat what we hear from leaders and
politicians as lies. Make them provide the proof, credible evidence.
In the US court of law, a person is presumed innocent until proven
guilty. It would be good
for us to use this same principle when trying to determine what is
true. Pay attention how often something is repeated. Those who repeat
things
over and over again are most likely using this propaganda tool. When
you find
people repeating
the lies over and over again, it would be wise
to do like the sailors had
to do to stay safe in the Siren
story;
stay
away, cover
your ears, and don’t listen. People who
listen end
up doing things that they regret doing afterwards, as is the case for
many of those who participated in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection
(attempted
coup).
A
wise man once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.”
I
believe it was James Comey who said in an interview shortly after he
was fired that he noticed that Republicans
had changed. They were no longer the people he knew or believed he
knew. I also posted once that listening to Trump was like listening
to the mythical
creature
Siren Siren
| Definition, Legend, & History | Britannica.
Understanding
how this kind of propaganda works I can see how it can change people
in very bad ways; change congressmen to no longer look after the
interests of the people but for the interests of the few. Change
German Christians in the 1930s and 40s so that the Holocaust
happened.
I
want to bring up something that I just remembered. Trump was elected
in the 2016 elections mostly by Christians because of a prophecy. The
prophecy that was widely circulated among Christians was that god
chose Trump to be president. There was even a movie produced and
circulated in churches about the prophecy which I did not know
existed until just recently. Back then when I kept hearing from my
Christian friends that god chose Trump to be president, I was taken
back by this and after much thought on the subject, I wrote a piece
“Are Christians being deceived?”. For some reason my wife found “The
Trump Prophecy” movie the other day and we decided to watch it. It
was difficult to ascertain exactly how the prophecy came to the
fireman. Satan appears to him many times and an angle of light only
once. The Bible says that Satan himself can disguise himself as an
angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14).
Ephesians
6:10-18
Lexham
English Bible
Spiritual
Warfare
10
Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength.
11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand
against the stratagems of the devil, 12 because our struggle is not
against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Because of
this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to
resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand. 14
Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the
breastplate of righteousness, 15 and binding shoes under your feet
with the preparation of the good news of peace, 16 in everything
taking up the shield of faith, with which you are able to quench all
the flaming arrows of the evil one, 17 and receive the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18
with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit,
and to this end being alert with all perseverance and supplication
for all the saints,
This
is what happens when people listen to the propaganda, lies that are repeated over
and over again!
2021
United States Capitol attack
January
6th, 2021, insurrection (attempted coup) to overthrow the
election.
Some of the not quite so disturbing pictures taken during the Holocaust. There are others much worse.
The
Holocaust Explained
